Writing Family History with Jeremy Harding, John Lanchester, Nicholas Spice and Mary-Kay Wilmers
Sunday 15 November 2009, 7 p.m. · 70 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/6/0/2/9/529206-9-eng-GB/525814d078f51.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/6/0/2/9/529206-9-eng-GB/525814d078f51.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/6/0/2/9/529206-9-eng-GB/525814d078f51.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/6/0/2/9/529206-9-eng-GB/525814d078f51.jpg 1200w)
How do writers investigate their own pasts and shape them into a narrative, one which other people will find interesting? What are the particular pleasures, and pitfalls, of this kind of writing? Nicholas Spice, the publisher of The London Review of Books, chaired a discussion with Jeremy Harding, the author of the memoir Mother Country; John Lanchester, the author of Family Romance; and Mary-Kay Wilmers, the paper’s editor, whose book The Eitingons was published in 2009.
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